From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 11 15:54:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA16937 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 May 1997 15:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelonious.spidome.net (thelonious.spidome.net [205.153.247.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA16932 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 15:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daniel@localhost) by thelonious.spidome.net (8.8.3/8.8.3) id WAA20808; Sun, 11 May 1997 22:52:17 GMT Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 22:52:17 GMT Message-Id: <199705112252.WAA20808@thelonious.spidome.net> From: Daniel Odom MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jeremy & Beth Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: vs. Linux In-Reply-To: <337520D5.3F67@frontiernet.net> References: <337520D5.3F67@frontiernet.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Linux and FreeBSD are both BSD 4.4 derivatives. (in other words, neither one is sysV). You might look at Solaris 386 -- http://www.sun.com -- which is SysV. Jeremy & Beth writes: > I'm currently a CS student and we've been using the Sun System V OS. My > quick question is - what would be the closest match to System V, > Slackware Linux or FreeBSD? Is there a difference in the applications? > or is it just a matter of the kernel? > > Thanks in advance, > jeremy -- Daniel Odom Software engineer daniel@spidome.net voice: 913-625-6124 fax: 913-625-6967